Mandi 🏒⚾️🥎

AMERICAN by birth, PATRIOT by choice, TEXAN by the grace of GOD. Wife. Mama to 2 beautiful girls. Artist. Dallas Stars obsessed.

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@RopesEagles GO EAGLES!!!!

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@FloraLuzz_ Cool, bye!

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@FloraLuzz_ I’m educated, not afraid. But if you want to conflate the two, I guess go ahead.

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@ABCNetwork what did yall do with the softball feed?! BRING IT BACK!

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@jamestalarico Well, we’ve heard your own words. You very clearly are a radical leftist and a blasphemer, so…

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@TimCowlishaw Well, injuries happened, so…

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Let’s GOOOO! 💚💚💚

[Ropes ISD @RopesEagles]

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ALLLLLLL OF THIS!

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

So let me get this straight…

During COVID, government imposed eviction moratoriums across cities and states.

A lot of Americans still do not understand what that actually meant.

It did NOT mean government paid everybody’s rent.

It meant landlords were often legally blocked from removing tenants for nonpayment.

But the landlord’s obligations NEVER stopped.

Mortgage?
Still due.
Property taxes?
Still due.

Insurance?
Still due.
Water bills?
Still due.

Heating systems?
Still due.
Repairs?
Still due.

Code violations?
Still due.
So imagine a small Black landlord in a struggling neighborhood with a duplex or triple they worked decades to buy.

Tenants stop paying for months… sometimes years.
Meanwhile inflation explodes.
Material costs explode.
Insurance spikes.
Taxes rise.
Savings disappear.

That owner drains retirement accounts and maxes out credit cards just trying to survive while politicians stand behind podiums pretending compassion costs nothing.
Then comes the final insult.

Buildings deteriorate because cash flow collapsed…
and now politicians like Zohran Mamdani point at the deterioration THEY helped create and say:
“Negligent landlord.”
“Take the building.”
“Transfer ownership.”
So government creates the financial hemorrhage…
then blames the wounded for bleeding.

The wealthy corporate developers survive.
Massive investment firms survive.
Politically connected nonprofits survive.

But the working class landlord?
The old Black couple trying to leave property to their children?
The immigrant family that scraped together enough for 6 units?
The retired tradesman depending on rental income?

CRUSHED.
And Americans better wake up to what this really means.
Because once government decides “neglect” justifies control…
the definition of neglect expands every year.
Today it is deferred maintenance.
Tomorrow it becomes “underutilized property.”
Then “community necessity.”
Then “housing equity.”
That road always ends with less private ownership and more centralized control.

You do not save neighborhoods by destroying the people who stayed invested in them.
You do not stabilize cities by terrifying small property owners.
And you absolutely do not rebuild Black wealth by making ownership itself politically dangerous.

Watch carefully.

The people who suffered under the moratoriums are now being portrayed as villains for surviving the policies imposed on them.
#SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

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@ewarren Really? Last I checked, he wasn’t taking paychecks, but YOU somehow became a multimillionaire on $285k a year. You’re REALLY gonna sit there and cast that stone?

[Hon. Vickie Paladino @VickieforNYC]

Let's understand a few things about what's actually about to happen here if Zohran gets his way -- which he almost certainly will, unless courts intervene.

First and foremost, Cea Weaver and DSA 'organizers' will be unleashed with the full institutional and legal support of the city government to ramp up tenant complaints in targeted buildings. No complaint will be too small. No building will be too small. Everything will be treated as catastrophic. Full-scale demagoguery will ensue, complete with protests, rent strikes, street theater, and harassment of property owners.

Accordingly, the city buildings department will be weaponized to begin writing as many violations as possible in order to bolster the city's effort to justify a seizure. It won't matter how small or large the violations are, the total number will be breathlessly cited as evidence of mismanagement. It will be impossible for landlords to clear these violations in good faith.

The combination of a weaponized buildings department writing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, rent strikes, and constant threats and harassment against landlords by militant activists will make the situation untenable for any property owner to realistically fight back, and the city will seize the property. The landlord will be lucky to walk away without prison or being beaten to death in the street by an angry mob (as Zohran's buddy Hasan Piker referred to landlords -- 'let the streets run red with their capitalist blood').

But that's only the first half of the plan, and everyone needs to pay very close attention to the big picture here, because it's hugely important and has national implications.

The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point.

The idea here is to build up Zohran's DSA-connected nonprofits with a multbillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets -- New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get.

Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario.

As it stands now, the nonprofits depend mostly on the largesse of grants, donations, and other third-party resources to stay afloat. They are lavishly funded of course, and many do hold significant assets, but it would all pale in comparison to simply handing them the keys to a New York City real estate empire, courtesy of Zohran Mamdani and the DSA.

The resources at their disposal would be immense. The organizing potential that goes along with those resources will have national implications. Every DSA candidate in every town and city in the country would be trained, funded, and staffed by organizers with ties to the NYC nonprofit empire backed by a trillion dollars in free real estate. And they would be shameless in leveraging those resources for pure political power.

That's the game plan here. That's the whole ball of wax.

Zohran isn't interested in making housing better for anyone. If he was, we'd be talking seriously about solving the NYCHA disaster.

Hell, if he was even remotely sincere about seizing these properties from 'bad landlords' for the 'public good' he'd be focused on turning them over to the city itself, as misguided as that would be.

No, this is about nothing more than consolidating political power for the DSA. Just like everything else these people do. Giving the DSA a massive war chest backed by seized real estate.

Once you understand that they have no interest in fixing anything other than elections, it all makes a lot more sense.

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That hurts.

[Dr. B @BlakeTheRxGuy]

If you’re a NASCAR under the age of 47, you’ll be watching your first ever Cup race today without a Busch or an Earnhardt in it.

The 2026 Coca-Cola 600 will be the first NASCAR Cup Series race without an Earnhardt or Busch in the field since 1979.

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I have no words. RIP

[Old Row Sports @OldRowSports]

“Because you never know when the last one is”

- Kyle Busch, last week

Wow

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@wesley_jenks @AntiLeftMemes Came to post this man, myself. 😂

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@AprilSpark1890 Let me tell you how the Christians do this, bub: private after-hours parties. That’s acceptable. Telling the rest of us we can’t attend during the normal business hours of a publicly-funded entity is what isn’t acceptable.

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@MrMajidLV @ThrillaRilla369 That went away in the New Testament. Nice try, though.

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@SaraGonzalesTX Great work, Sara. I’m so tired of this group trying to take over my state.

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@SaraGonzalesTX You know, most groups book out public venues after closing time. That would have been acceptable here. Keeping everyone else out during normal operating hours is not okay.

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@redandyellowca1 @samnestler Roy hates everyone, so that tells us nothing. 😂

Imagine, a kid being selfish? Yeah, he’s found his humble pie. So you dislike him, we get it.

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@redandyellowca1 @samnestler He’s pulled the guys together before seasons for private concerts, buys thoughtful team gifts, anchored one of the most productive lines in the nhl, is gracious to every teammate in interviews, & consistently encourages the team in-game from the bench. That’s NOT cap material?😂

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@MachinistLawyer @samnestler And Johnston is too young for it, imo. You need a bridge.